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To Persians, the fourteenth-century poems of Hafiz are not classical literature from a remote past, but cherished love, wisdom, and humor from a dear and intimate friend. Perhaps, more than any other Persian poet, it is Hafiz who most fully accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Daniel Ladinsky has made it his life's work to create modern, inspired translations of the world's most profound spiritual poetry. Through Ladinsky's translations, Hafiz's voice comes alive across the centuries singing his message of love.

Daniel Ladinsky is the translator of The Gift and Love Poems from God. For six years he lived with the family of Meher Baba in a spiritual community in western India.

Introduction	p. ix
Where Dolphins Dance	p. 1
The Woman I Love	p. 2
Forgiveness Is the Cash	p. 3
All the Hemispheres	p. 4
The Vegetables	p. 5
At This Party	p. 6
Why All This Talk?	p. 7
In a Handful of God	p. 8
Because of Our Wisdom	p. 9
We Keep Each Other Happy	p. 10
Castrating an Ego	p. 11
This Place Where You Are Right Now	p. 12
In a Tree House	p. 13
We Are a Couple of Barroom Sailors	p. 14
No Other Kind of Light	p. 15
Not with Wings	p. 16
Venus Just Asked Me	p. 18
The Size of the Love Bruise	p. 19
The Theater of Freedom	p. 20
You Say, I Say	p. 22
Where Do You Think You Will Be?	p. 23
The Day Sky	p. 24
Among Strong Men	p. 25
Beautiful Hands	p. 26
Old Sweet Beggar	p. 27
Out of the Mouths of a Thousand Birds	p. 28
I Knew We Would Be Friends	p. 30
Build a House for Men	p. 31
That Sounds Wonderful	p. 32
A Singing Cleaning Woman	p. 33
Your Shape of Laughter	p. 34
Something I Have Learned	p. 35
And a Big Herd of Sweet Goats	p. 36
Narrow the Difference	p. 37
The Small Table of Time and Space	p. 38
The Happy Virus	p. 40
The Wonderful Lawlessness	p. 41
They Call to You to Sing	p. 42
Your Medicine	p. 44
It Happens All the Time in Heaven	p. 45
The Guardians of His Beauty	p. 46
The Subject Tonight Is Love	p. 47
I Saw You Dancing	p. 48
Never Say It Is Not God	p. 49
Absolutely Clear	p. 50
Ten Thousand Idiots	p. 51
To Anything That Moved	p. 52
Carrying God	p. 53
I Cherish Your Ears	p. 54
Deepening the Wonder	p. 55
Will Beat You Up	p. 56
I Follow Barefoot	p. 57
Join Me in the Pure Atmosphere	p. 58
Some Angels Grumble	p. 60
Playing in the Brilliance	p. 61
Like the Ganges	p. 62
And Acting So Cool	p. 64
A Potted Plant	p. 65
Just Sit There	p. 66
A Suspended Blue Ocean	p. 67
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The Subject Tonight Is Love 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz

The Subject Tonight Is Love 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz

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